Chocolate Peanut Butter Cakes

Wow I have a lot of catching up to do... Anyways, here are the cupcakes inspired by my dad.  For his birthday I asked him what kind of cupcake would he want.  He told me he likes peanut butter cups (although the eggs are better) and Heath Bars... So I decided to make Peanut Butter Cupcakes with a surprise inside...

Peanut Butter (is this one word or two?) Buttercream Magnificence with Chocolate Glaze!

My Cupcake Taster now requests drink pairings... Milk with this one

Can you see the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup inside????

The recipe for the cupcakes is the same one I used for the Toothpaste Cupcakes.  The book calls it a "muffin" but I like to call it a Cupcake.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Adapted From The Chocolate Cake Mix Doctor

Ingredients:

1 Devil's Food Cake Mix (Super Moist or With Pudding)

1/2 C. Vegetable Oil

1/2 C. Water

1 C. Sour Cream (not the low fat kind, come on now)

1 Small Package Chocolate Instant Pudding (yes, with sugar in it)

4 Large Eggs

2 Sleeves of Crushed Oreos (Found a way to involve the husband, make him figure out how to crush Oreos w/o making a mess.  Pretty entertaining for me and I like to see what kitchen utensil or household item he will try to use)

Anyways, this is super easy!  Put all of the ingredients (minus the Oreos,husband should work on crushing them while you mix) in the bowl and mix for 1 minute, scrape the bowl and then mix for 2 minutes.  Stir in the crushed cookies, eat the extra. 

Divide batter among 24-30 cupcake papers.  This time the recipe made 30.  I put in one scoop of batter and then the peanut butter cup and then another scoop of batter to cover it up.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 17 minutes, depending on your oven.

Remove when done and place on neat wire rack thing to cool.

Honestly for the frosting I put some butter in the mixer, mixed it, added a bunch of peanut butter (I liked the organic roasted PB) and added some vanilla and powdered sugar.  You may need to add heavy cream or milk to smooth out the frosting to make it spread- or pipe- able.  Pipe on cooled cupcakes however you see fit.

Then I made a chocolate glaze and drizzled it over the cupcakes.

These are almost as good as these...

You should definitely try them :)

Hubby Rating

Cake:  9

Frosting:  9

Filling:  6

Overall:  9

Happy Baking

Kristi